Local Polls Unnerve Serbia’s Ruling Coalition

Everyone needs a holiday, and since Belgrade Insight will be back after the heat of the summer has lifted, we decided to include all the hot events that will make August in the city feel like a vacation. This is our selection of not-to-be-missed events.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Macedonia in June is considerably higher than in the same period last year, the State Statistical Office revealed.

House prices in Bulgaria were 23 per cent lower in the first half of 2009 than they were in the equivalent period last year, real estate company Address was quoted by Bulgarian National Radio as saying.

Romanian movie Tales from the Golden Age will open the 15th Sarajevo Film Festival tonight. 

The UN operation in Sarajevo kept people alive but also prolonged the siege by spawning a class of gangsters and profiteers that had no wish to see it come to an end.

Along with scores of former Islamic fighters and suspected terrorists, U2 frontman Bono Vox could be stripped of his Bosnian passport, local media reported over the weekend.